Maureen Tkacik

Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters and the 2016-2017 president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. He was the lead Reuters correspondent for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign and interviewed the president at the White House in 2015. Jeff has been based in Washington since 2008, when he covered the historic race between Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Jeff started his career in Frankfurt, Germany, where he covered the airline industry before moving to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. He is a Colorado native, proud graduate of Northwestern University and former Fulbright scholar.

Part one of this series traced DeMarco’s conversion from coddler of banks to unyielding litigator of bank fraud. It’s a rare shift in Washington, where “corruption” is a process that’s practically synonymous with “aging.”

Suskind’s character studies in "Confidence Men" end up corroborating your best gut-level impressions, of all the innumerable well-intentioned individuals who understood in September ‘08 what so many like them understood in September ‘01, that this was their chance to do their part to restore a bit of civility to a civilization that seemed otherwise hellbent on setting a world record in rot.

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